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A Comparative Research on the Declaration of Will to the Terminal Care, pre-arranged Funeral and pre-need Burial

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13572003
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section海外学術
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionSaga University

Principal Investigator

KITAGAWA Keiko  Saga University, Faculty of Culture and Education, Professor, 文化教育学部, 教授 (00128977)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KURIHARA Atsushi  Saga University, Faculty of Culture and Education, Associate Professor, 文化教育学部, 助教授 (40215067)
TAKEDA Jun  Saga University, Faculty of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (20045066)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Keywordspre-arranged funeral contract / terminal care / durable power of attorney / Asian funeral custom / mortuary law / pre-need burial / Hospice / proxy / end of life issue / 遺族ケア
Research Abstract

We administrated researches to clarify consideration by which the senior citizen declared their wills for terminal care and nursing care as proxy and pre-need funeral and pre-need burial from 2001 to 2002.
There are exists as a method of declaring the intention, choices in the declaration of the intention to terminal care, funereal and burial.
This is a research on fieldwork to do the comparison research on Japan and various foreign countries on this field. We researched the living will pre-need funereal, funereal tradition and customs in the European countries, the U.S. and Asian countries. Moreover, to compare it pre-need contract during later life of senior citizens in our country.
In addition, it executed this research concerning the intention for the terminal care at hospice in Japan. Not only in the U.S. but also in our country, it aware to describe own will or sense toward the medical care and funeral as the proxy and the pre-need funeral contract was during later life clarified an … More d it begin to spread of American pre-arranged funereal way out in Asian countries where are some funeral home and cemetery provide as pre-need (pre-arranged) funereal.
From the baby boomer in postwar days approaches to an increase of the contract as having an aged period during later life in the United States as an aged society.
Moreover, it was clarified for the acknowledgment of the life ethics to facilitate the hospice care, and to be becoming a society where the hospice was requested by the old patient regardless of the hospital or staying. Need not put not only nursing the preparation for the life of an aged period for independence but also the death in view is recognized became clear by this research.
However, there is some problem in regard to the hospice care, too. In our country, there is a lot of being understood that hospitalization at the hospice declared the patients intention to terminal care also in the medical treatment organization. It was clarified that the care of the patient was valued more than the later life of the patient and the family for that. Neither the life nor the death are caught in Japan on the same line because how the declaration of the intention for the terminal care as medical treatment for the end of life and the declaration of the will for funeral as pre-arranged funeral were quite different.
The Japanese elderly think about "Consecutive intention from the life to the death" easily otherwise it is more difficult to think about pre-need of own funeral before die independently. The pre-need (pre-arranged) funeral contract was during people's life different which is the intention of funereal, mortuary law and custom compared with Asian countries and the United States.
We concluded and can be said, we pointed out "Japanese type" of pre-need funeral. During people's lifetime, the contract of funereal, will for the terminal care at hospice of an American type that came to be shown in Asian countries gradually has been extending.
During people's lifetime, the contract shows the directionality of progress different from Japan to "Asian type" in Asian countries. Moreover, terminal care, funereal custom and even mortuary law show a different aspect in European countries and the United States. The progress as pre-need funeral has come into view to our country as an American type and an Asian type. This is a result of the international comparison research on the declaration of the will to the terminal care and pre-need funereal contract before die. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (18 results)

All Other

All Publications (18 results)

  • [Publications] 武田 淳: "北前船幻想-人が運んだものと文化-"人間文化 神戸学院大学人文学会誌. 17号. 63-72 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 武田 淳: "樹液飲用の文化誌:伝統的利用と技術"佐賀大学農学部彙報. 87号. 37-51 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 栗原 淳: "佐賀県における高校生の抑うつ症状とその問題関連要因について"佐賀大学文化教育学部研究論文集. 第6集第2号. 285-291 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 北川慶子: "「高齢期の生活課題と葬送の生前契約」日中社会福祉論文集"中国・遼寧師範大学出版局. 320 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Jun Takeda: "Reverie of KITAMAE-SEN -Cultural Exchange and Substances which person carried-"Kobe Gakuin University Journal. Vol.17. 63-72 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Keiko Kitagawa, Wu Xia: "SOCIAL POLICY AND CARING SYSTEM of NURSING HOME in DALIAN, CHINA"Journal of the Faculty of Culture and Education Saga University. vol.6-2. (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Jun Takeda: "Drinkable SAP and Cultural History"Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture Saga University. vol.87. 37-51 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Jun Kurihara: "A Study on the Main Cause of Psychotic Depression of Juveniles and Problem Solving Process"Journal of the Faculty of Culture and Education Saga University. vol.6-2. 285-291 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] "A Study on the Pre-Arranged Funeral and Big issue at Old-Aged Term of Senior Citizens"Bulletin of China - Japan Social Work. -320 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Keiko Kitagawa: "Preparing for Own Funeral After You Go"Funeral Business. vol.6. 36-40 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Keiko Kitagawa: "A Global Aging and Social Change - The Outline of the Social Welfare Policy -"A paper for the Scientific Meeting of School of Law, Fu-Jen University. (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Keiko Kitagawa: "Barrier Free and Education, Social Work Education"Minerva Publishing Company. 166-175 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 武田 淳: "北前船幻想-人が運んだものと文化-"人間文化 神戸学院大学人文学会誌. 17号. 63-72 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 武田 淳: "樹液飲用の文化誌:伝統的利用と技術"佐賀大学農学部彙報. 87号. 37-51 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 栗原 淳: "佐賀県における高校生の抑うつ病とその問題関連要因について"佐賀大学文化教育学部研究論文集. 第6集第2号. 285-291 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 北川慶子: "「高齢期の生活課題と葬送の生前契約」日中社会福祉論文集"中国・遼寧師範大学出版局. 320 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 北川慶子, 呉霞: "中国大連市における高齢者福祉施策と福祉施設"佐賀大学文化教育学部研究論文集. 第6集2号. (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 北川慶子他: "社会福祉教育法"200 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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